> >"Is MCS (Multiple Chemical Sensitivity) Incurable?"
> >By Claire W. Gilbert, Ph.D.
> ><claire@b...>
> >Copyright 2000
> >
> >Open Letter to Monica Kauppi
> >
> >Editor and Publisher
> >Heavy Metal Bulletin
> >Lilla Aspuddsv. 10,
> >S-12649 Hagersten, Sweden
> ><heavymetal.bulletin@s...>
> >
> >Dear Monica,
> >
> > I just received Heavy Metal Bulletin (10/00) and can hardly
> >wait to read it, from the scanning "In this issue" on Page 1. I am
> >also exceedingly eager to see the next issue featuring the role of
> >oral infections in systematic disease because I am going to be
> >writing about the very same subject myself, perhaps from a
> >different standpoint.
> > I planned immediately to acknowledge to you receiving your
> >latest edition, but after looking at the back page -- at "JoAnne
> >never had MCS" -- a letter from Cynthia Wilson of the Chemical
> >Injury Information Network -- I am doubly motivated to write.
> >Cynthia denounces Chinese Medicine as "quackery" and without ever
> >seeing the patient who was cured of MCS from a quack, concludes the
> >patient never had MCS.
> > It sounds so much like oncologists who say patients "never had
> >cancer" after a cure is obtained by a quack -- such as by the use
> >of herbs and nutrition. "The patient never had cancer" is
> >proclaimed by the "expert" despite the his or her earlier diagnosis
> >of cancer and the supporting tests.
> > Wilson sent Blazing Tattles and an angry letter, too, once for
> >an article which discussed the role of ideas, thoughts, or beliefs,
> >in the creation and cure of illness.
> > I would tell Wilson, by way of this letter, that one of the
> >standard maxims of my discipline (sociology) in which I hold a
> >Ph.D. is "As a thing is believed real, it becomes real in its
> >consequences." Few people with MCS who believe they are incurable
> >are ever going to get well. In fact, accepting such a believe can
> >be a death sentence for some, as their bodies shut down.
> > I have been diagnosed with MCS by members of the American
> >Academy of Environmental Medicine in every geographical area in
> >which I've lived. I am a "universal reactor," also, meaning that
> >almost anything for which I've been tested, I react to.
> > I was first diagnosed with MCS in New York City in 1980, then
> >in Boca Raton, Florida, in 1989, and later in Saratoga, California,
> >in 1992. I've been diagnosed with MCS also by a forensic
> >pathologist, chiropractors, and nutritionists. I have been
> >"certified" by Social Security and New York State as being disabled
> >from MCS.
> > My first doctor told me there was nothing I could do to
> >recover. He said I had to accept my brain injury (from
> >formaldehyde fumes) and the ultra, exquisite sensitivity I
> >developed to levels of chemicals that a normal person wouldn't even
> >detect.
> > I was bedridden a good part of the time and semi-home bound.
> >My IQ was severely reduced. I accepted I was incurable.
> > However, I did what I could including, when I had a double
> >migraine and could not get out of bed, affirming: "Every day in
> >every way I am getting better and better and better." I read in
> >Food, Mind, and Mood, in a footnote, that some doctor said every
> >patient he had that affirmed that -- three times a day -- got well.
> > At one point a couple of years after I was diagnosed as
> >"irreversible," I decided to act as if MCS was not irreversible.
> >I didn't believe I could ever be well, but I figured I had nothing
> >to lose to believe I could get well. Yet, I did not expect it to
> >happen.
> > Through the years, through medical professionals as well as
> >quacks, I have gradually learned how to live with MCS and improve
> >my health. I've done such a large number of different things to
> >foster the creation of my own health that it would take a book
> >length manuscript to describe them. I still devote a lot of
> >attention to making myself healthy.
> > I cannot work in the labor force at a nine to five job
> >because I would quickly loose my health due to the same reasons
> >I became ill working in the first place, but -- as long as I take
> >excellent care of myself and avoid continuous exposure to common
> >chemicals -- the startling thing is that I am becoming healthy
> >beyond my wildest expectations in terms of how I feel.
> > I feel better and better. Many days I feel fantastic and
> >function very well for an "incurably ill" MCS. I am free from pain
> >almost all the time now, including migrains which I no longer have.
> > Those who loudly proclaim to know that MCS (lupus,
> >fibromyalgia, hypoglyemcia, candida, acquired porphyria, chronic
> >fatigue syndrome, candida, Gulf War Illness, etc.) is incurable do
> >not help anyone at all, in my opinion. Also, saying MCS is
> >incurable flies in the face of many who are recovering.
> > All diseases -- except perhaps those you have at birth -- are
> >reversible. The body wants very much to be healthy, and if you
> >remove your toxic dental materials, infections, and parasites --
> >which provide a steady supply of chemicals within your body -- plus
> >do a couple of other "clean ups" as described by Hulda R. Clark,
> >Ph.D., N.D., in her books* you can be healthy once more.
> > Those of us with MCS who learn how to get well are among the
> >lucky ones on this earth, for we know all the pitfalls. As we
> >watch so-called "healthy" people run their bodies aground,
> >guaranteeing later, disasterous health problems, we rejoice in
> >gratitude for having been given an opporunity to learn many, many
> >lessons from our sensitivity.
> >
> >*If one is going to follow Clark, please consult her latest book,
> >The Cure for All Advanced Cancers," for her latest dental findings.
> >
> >
> >--
> >Claire W. Gilbert, Ph.D.
> >http://www.blazingtattles.com
> >
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